Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 265 Detective and Commission

If Miss "Magician" is really a descendant of Abraham, maybe I can give this notebook to her and let her know that there is such an Abraham who vowed to revive the family, but he took the magic potion at the wrong time and died in this basement. middle.

Of course, since there are three recipes in the note, I'm afraid I need to have a good discussion with her about the price.

Putting away the brown notebook, Angel looked around the basement again and found that except for the dried flesh and blood crawling all over the floor, there were no other useful items, so he left the place.

Before leaving, she used the cursed black flame to cauterize the flesh and blood, and cleaned the basement to bid farewell to Abraham who had no one to collect his body.

Although he was reckless, he did die to revive his family.

When she returned to the second floor, Angel was surprised to find that the head of the corpse that had fallen in the corner had grown back on its neck. The eyeballs had not fallen off, but were in the swollen state they had been in since they had been dead for a long time. She checked the corpse again and found that the head of the corpse had grown back on its neck. He died of suffocation due to broken neck bones and collapsed trachea.

There were marks on his neck that he had been pinched hard, and the angle was opposite to normal pinch marks. It seemed that he had strangled himself with both hands.

Normal people are not capable of strangling themselves. Combined with the strange stairs and the illusion of the corpse, Angel guessed that the resentful soul she had just burned to death possessed the thief and manipulated his body to kill herself.

Could it be that the dead descendant of Abraham turned into a resentful spirit due to some resentment?

Angel guessed, and decided to take the time to write a report letter to the nearest church and let the official Beyonders handle the matter. Although the resentful spirit had been solved, it was hard to say whether there would be other problems with this haunted house.

Thinking of this, she used the black flame to do a proper counter-divination, and then left No. 32 Wildey Street through the window on the second floor that was opened by the thief.

It was dark outside, and it was drizzling. The dim light from the street lamps was scattered in the rain and fog, shrouding the street in a hazy light.Angel put on his hood and rushed to the subway station where the last train was available, while thinking about the vampire who was locked up in the basement of Harvest Church.

The address provided by the other party for the second time was undoubtedly correct, allowing her to figure out that the curse on the master key came from the Abraham family, and she also obtained three consecutive potions from the same route!
Although one of them is the "Master of Magic" she got from Dominic, now there are Sequence 9 and Sequence 7, which can allow an ordinary person to be directly promoted to a mid-sequence Beyonder.

This is much more valuable than three potion recipes in different sequences!
In view of this, she originally wanted to find an opportunity to rescue this vampire from Father Utravsky, who was obsessed with preaching, but she was a little worried that Emlyn had "bad intentions and good deeds", even though he let her get the There are many benefits, but he is actually a guy who likes to lie to people and has even hurt many humans. After all, the address he provided for the first time was obviously a trap.

If Angel hadn't heard the question and used divination to confirm it, he might have been caught by his companions and were questioning Emlyn's whereabouts.

"It seems that the first address he provided, '48 Hewan Avenue, South District' is worthy of investigation... Well, but my time is limited, maybe I can find someone trustworthy to investigate on my behalf?"

Angel calculated, walked around the corner and came to the subway station.

"Has it been shut down?"

Looking at the closed subway station, Angel looked around the street shrouded in rain and found that there were only a few pedestrians and not a single hired carriage.

"Can I just walk back?"

After calculating in his mind the distance from the South District back to Red Rose Street in the Bridge District, a drop of cold sweat slipped from Angel's forehead and quickly mixed with the rain.

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"咚咚-"

The next morning, Angel came to No. 15 Minsk Street and knocked on the door of Detective Sherlock Moriarty.

After a while, the door was opened, and what came out was a middle-aged and elderly man with gray temples. "Well, did I go wrong?"

Even though he didn't bring the master key, Angel still went to the wrong place. He turned his head and looked at the nameplate beside the door, confirming that this was No. 15 Minsk Street. Moriarty's message book was also hanging at the door, and the pencil was already a little shorter. .

"Are you looking for Detective Moriarty? He's in there, and I'm here to visit him too."

The man said with a smile, and his calm and low tone made Angel feel familiar.

"Hello, Miss Watson." Behind the man, Moriarty, who had short black hair and a thicker beard, stuck his head out and said hello.

After exchanging pleasantries, Angel learned that the man with half white hair was named Isengard Stanton. Like Moriarty, he was a well-known private detective. This time he came to inform Moriarty about a recent incident. A bounty will be paid out, and he will probably receive three figures in gold pounds.

"Ms. Watson, you must have heard of the serial murder case that has caused a lot of uproar in the city in the past two months, right? Mr. Moriarty is a veritable reasoning expert and has made an important contribution to the detection of this case. Therefore, there are many rewards in the reward. Most of it will be his.”

After making a lively advertisement for Moriarty, Mr. Stanton left here. He stopped by on his way to the police station for business and couldn't afford to waste too much time.

After sending the old detective away, Moriarty invited Angel into the room and arranged for her to sit on the single sofa from last time. Then he smiled and asked her the reason for her visit.

"How come the bounty from the 'Devil Dog' incident belongs to you? Do the official Beyonders know that we killed it?"

Instead of hurriedly proposing a commission to investigate vampires, Angel first asked about the bounty that Isengard Stanton had mentioned.

Moriarty grinned, causing his deliberately thick beard to tremble: "I did participate in the investigation of serial murderers before, and came up with the idea that the murderer might not be human, because the death of the devil dog was not witnessed. However, no one could find anyone to claim the bounty, and a large portion was eventually given to the informants who provided clues and the detectives involved in the investigation."

"So you made the biggest contribution among them, so you got a bonus of hundreds of pounds?" Angel sighed with envy, "But your investigation did help a lot. Do you remember our analysis? The devil dog probably felt threatened at that time. , it took the initiative to attack, which directly led to its death."

Perhaps these experiences can be used on other Beyonders of the same sequence in the future. They can sense threats to themselves. This is both an advantage and a trap...

Angel silently wrote down this information, and then chatted with Moriarty for a few words before mentioning the investigation of "Emlyn White" and the address he mentioned.

"Did the vampires who were imprisoned in the Church of the Mother Earth get in because they got lost?" Moriarty's rhetorical question contained a hint of disbelief, which reminded Angel of himself when he heard about this for the first time, "But... This is not the first time I have heard the name Mullin White. Last week, a colleague asked me to look for him. He said that this man has been missing for half a month. Unexpectedly, he was locked in the basement by a priest and forced him to Listen to the faith of the Earth Mother..."

"Is your colleague...also a detective? Could he also be a vampire disguised as a human?"

Remembering that Emlyn kept repeating his name before leaving the Harvest Church yesterday, he seemed certain that someone from the outside world would be looking for her. Combined with the commission Moriarty received, her first reaction was that the vampire's companions were looking for him who was missing.

"No, he also received a commission from others. It is said that the reward is very generous, but because he has no clue, he wants me to help him. But you are right, the person who commissioned him is probably the same kind as Emlyn White, because It is not convenient for me to come forward, and I dare not report the crime or ask for help from official extraordinary people, so I can only look for private detectives who can keep secrets."

Moriarty thought for a moment, frowned, and replied.

"But why are you investigating this vampire?"

His brown pupils looked at Angel with undisguised curiosity.

(End of this chapter)